multiple submissions by the same person are fine, so if you’ve submitted before, or you’ve already submitted this time, no problem!

famous geek women: no geek woman is too well-known for this series unless we’ve featured her before. If more than one person submits the same woman to this round, their profiles will be combined.

living women

historical women

women who use pseudonyms

profiles you’ve published elsewhere (as long as you kept the right to allow us to republish it), for example, an Ada Lovelace Day post you made in previous years. If your piece has appeared at another URL, please give us that URL.

We may not publish your profile if it falls into these categories:

there are lots of geek women past and present, so for now we will not be re-posting a woman subject who has already been featured. See previously posted women. (Exception: if the woman was featured as part of a group profile, an individual profile is fine.)

profiles of women, especially living women, who don’t have some kind of public profile, which might include things like a public blog, a professional homepage with a professional bio, an academic homepage listing her publications, a Wikipedia page with her biography. It’s fine if she’s not famous, but we don’t want to highlight someone who’d rather not have a Web presence at all.

profiles of fictional women

per How Not to Do Ada Lovelace Day, profiles of women focussed on them being a supportive life-helper to a man geek will not be accepted (collaborative geeking with men of course accepted)

profiles focussed on a woman’s appearance or personal life, rather than her geeking

This year, I am flat out working in technology and have no time to blog! I’m helping run the Open Knowledge Foundation and also setting up Makespace, a makerspace in my local city. So instead I tweeted a list of wonderful tech ladies: https://twitter.com/LaurieJ/status/258242374306762752

happy Ada Lovelace Day, everyone. (sad to be missing Ada Live in London, but had to chair a makerspace meeting tonight)